@ mark poulson
I think , that I have seen pics of that "Kwikfish" before somewhere , as far , as I know , it looks pretty much like a "Helin's Flatfish" .
But thanks a lot for your nice compliments about my work !
Anyway , I hope , that the local predatory fish fraternity would lateron like to caress them , too
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So well , here are first pics of my prototype version blank of that "SuperBug" , it did not turn out 100% accordingly to my previously shown design sketch .
(@ Vodkaman , thanks about the advice to use such a CAD system , but I'd rather do things by hand , I'm kind of scared about computer work
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The difference is , that I made the lip still about 10mm's longer at its base than shown , found this out by viewing pics of the original lure again , my sketched lip length was too short , obviously .
Also the outer contoures of the wood blank(light quality abachewood)are just little bigger as sketched.
I am not too happy with that only 2mm's thick lexan lip , would have prefered 3mm thickness , but I wanted to gain maximum possible buoyancy , probably I could alter the lip's thickness still on later models (if this one should turn out to perform well at all) .
For easy reproduction of that lip shape I have made an aluminium template of it , just as first step , before cutting out lip at all !
(got dozens of such templates made through the years for spoons , blades , props , creeper wings.......etc. , and lips , of course)
To render the bond of lip to body more stable , I additionally secured the lip with two wire pins , when epoxying everything together , these would off course be flush to the belly of lure .
Also for buoyancy reasons I did not make the internal wire form as I always use to do(both ends of wire would be kinked into the "U"-shaped interior of the belly eye) , but in the way shown .
The kinked rear end of the wire form leads upward into a small bore for added strength against pull-out !
Now my new lure blank has to soak in a linseedoil/turpentine mixture for some days and after dry for at least two weeks , just to preserve the wood against water sepage .
Can't wait to finally assemble and clearcoat it for first trials
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Greetings , Dieter
